In the wake of the Trump administration, US-China relations are at their lowest point in decades. For weeks now, Chinese officials have been calling for better relations, and on Monday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi continued the call.
“We stand ready to have candid communication with the US side, and engage in dialogues aimed at solving problems,” Wang said. He also called on the US to lift trade restrictions and stop interfering in China’s internal affairs. The US responded sharply to Wang’s remarks.
“I think his comments reflect the continued pattern of Beijing’s tendency to avert blame for its predatory economic practices, its lack of transparency, its failure to honor its international agreements, and its repression of universal human rights,” US State Department spokesman Ned Price said in response to Wang.
“You’ve heard us speak before about the way in which we will approach China, through the prism of competition from a position of strength,” Price added.
So far, President Biden’s China policy is looking a lot like his predecessor’s. US warships continue to frequently sail into the South China Sea, trade restrictions are still in place, and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said tariffs on Chinese goods will remain, at least for now.
Biden’s Pentagon is currently reviewing the US military’s posture in Asia and its overall China policy. The review is being led by Ely Ratner, a China hawk who co-authored an article last September titled, “Trump Has Been Weak on China, and Americans Have Paid the Price.” Ratner was appointed to advise Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who Republican China hawks feared was too inexperienced on Asia.
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference last week, President Biden said the US and its allies must prepare for “long-term strategic competition with China.” Working with regional allies to confront China seems to be the focus of Washington’s Asia strategy. Even NATO is looking to get in on the action in the Pacific.
Also speaking at the Munich Conference, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg echoed Biden and said the “rise of China” is a “defining issue” for the alliance. “This is why NATO should deepen our relationships with close partners, like Australia and Japan, and forge new ones around the world,” he said.
The aims of the new administration regards China are broadly similar to the Trump administration: what it sees as the protection of American interests, or hegemonic dominance. But it is failing to see the catastrophic consequences of this policy – heed the warnings of history.
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What else can we expect from just another evil empire?
The US is stumbling toward war, open combat in some place and form. It will be shocked. It will also lose, because it is arrogant and unready.
How on earth can they be unready when they’ve been spending so much?
But we are! We are unready because fighting terrorists and poor peasant farmers and bombing weddings is poor practice for fighting hypersonic missiles and actual trained motivated soldiers of a near-peer technology on their own turf.
MacArthur said never fight a land war in Asia … very good advice.
It’s past time for the world to rise and obliterate the US empire.
China needs to realize (and perhaps they do but need to play the game): the empire needs to be defanged; it is unreformable, The dollar needs to be brought down to par so that the empire can’t afford to threaten everyone all the time. It will be a shock to our system.
Heck we don’t have to cooperate with China or anybody else for that matter because we have the US dollar and a great big printing press in Washington DC. We can just print up as many trillions as we need and buy up all the worlds resources while the Chinese people and others slave away producing the goods that we consume on a daily basis. We got it made and if anybody doesn’t like it we have this huge military complex stationed all over the planet Just waiting to give you a little present.
“You’ve heard us speak before about the way in which we will approach China, through the prism of competition from a position of strength,” Price added.
When one is weak,getting weaker,to call out a foe who is strong, getting stronger is not maybe the smartest thing to do…
Didnt hitler say something like this about the russians?
No.
contre’- Arrogance and Overconfidence- These are just a few of the usa’s character flaws…
Now i know why che went to visit china